Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both had joined the Louisiana Energy & Development Corp. in 1981. Francioni arrived in April; she got the job on a tip from a friend after dropping out of Louisiana State University. She took to the work. "I think I've found something I really enjoy doing," she told her mother. She talked of returning to college, perhaps to study accounting...
...each other a moment. Then they kiss, furiously. She flings herself on him. He gropes for the zipper of her strapless black-and-gold sheath. There is a flash of a man's hand on a creamy thigh, the pull of a black garter. Afterward, the officer and his friend relax into opposite corners of the limo and survey the damage. "My name is Tom," he says with a smile to end all smiles...
Grossman's conviction came as a result of actions in July 1986, when he telephoned five relatives and a friend to tip them off to the pending financial restructuring of Colt Industries, the firearms and automotive-parts manufacturer. The six bought almost $34,000 worth of Colt options, an investment that netted nearly $1.5 million in profits when the project became public knowledge. The crimes were discovered during a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the unusually heavy trading in Colt prior to the refinancing announcement. Grossman will appeal last week's verdict...
...controversy that followed Hess's death seemed a fitting end to his enigmatic life. As Adolf Hitler's closest friend and the former deputy to the Fuhrer of the Third Reich, Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. He remained Spandau's only inhabitant for more than two decades, after the last of his fellow Nazis was released from the 147-cell red-brick fortress...
...perhaps best known for his reporting of the 1985 TWA hostage drama for ABC News, was quick to admit that he had made a terrible blunder by visiting Beirut earlier this year for a book he still intends to write about the Middle East. Glass was driving with a friend, Ali Osseiran, 40, the son of Lebanon's Defense Minister, when the pair suddenly found themselves sandwiched between two cars filled with armed men. The kidnapers were presumed to be members of the radical, pro-Iranian Hizballah (Party of God), the organization linked to a series of spectacular terrorist acts...